Sylvia Petter's Blog, page 8

A busy month of SWAMP

It’s been a busy SWAMP time this month: Scrivener-Words-Art-Music-Politics. We completed our acting workshop with Jeanette Brox McCarthy with discussion of our videos and how we came over on film.… more

Yes, they can, and we will!

My acting class with Jeanette Brox McCarthy went past the 8:30 pm 2-hour schedule and finished at 23:00! What passion! It seems I can do the acting bit, but have… more

What a week(s)!

What a couple of weeks this was. A 90th birthday celebration at the Luftburg with dear friends. A special off-the-menu beef tartare for me and home-made Sachertorte (the real thing… more

A blast from the past: An Imaginary Friend

I was googling and came across stories in the charity anthology, A Pint and a Haircut: True Irish Stories,edited by Garret Pearse and published by Londubh Books, Dublin, in 2010… more

Northern Chilling

For the first time in two years I had a relaxing and invigorating holiday for body and mind. Three weeks in a tiny place with about ten houses, ten minutes’… more

ps. what I’m also taking with me

I had been reading Anita Heiss’ memoir, Am I Black Enough for You? but stopped about halfway through. I kept having to wipe the beginnings of tears from my eyes.… more

Summertime Break

At last, a year later, we have managed to go through the personal effects of my Swedish brother. So many perfectly good warm clothes and shoes have now been dropped… more

King WSIS & I

My adult life growing up was spent in an international environment working for an organization whose head honcho believed in the right to communicate and even hoped that this right… more

Just follow your gut!

After a spate of rejections for a bunchof flash fiction, I was thrilled to hear that a piece I sent off as an exercise in historical fiction under 500 words… more

Breaking out and away

I’m grateful for my day job with my Schubis, the young people I work with at uni. As one was going on maternity leave, we decided to do something creative… more